Me: "man this first person dungeon crawler sure will be a nice escape from all these souls-likes!"

Narrator: "He had never heard of kingsfield, but he was going to learn..."

Despite this being a thumbs-up review, there is a GIANT asterisk by it. If I could give it a middle thumb, I would.

Incredible visuals and exploratory nature that we haven't seen in video games since I was young enough to remember when my monthly Nintendo Power was going to come in the mail. A fantastic job was done with the soundtrack, and overall sound design, to sink its aesthetics into your brain whilst also producing amazing bangers that you can jam to, it does both elegantly and wonderfully. The game feels so seemless and wonderful when exploring, I never once looked up a guide for anything, it's a perfect exploratory game going in blind.

And then you fight the first boss, and it's the biggest slogfest of your life, and it takes way too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ long to get any progress done, but if you mess up just a bit too much you have to start the process all over again and watch the same unskippable cutscene sequence every time. It's horrible, genuinely just a test of patience more than anything else. It sucks, straight up. Then it's over and its back to everything I listed before.

And then you reach the 2nd boss, the final boss mind you. And the cutscene sequence is even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ longer, and the boss is even more unforgiving, and even stronger, and more of a slogfest. If you didn't make a magic build you essentially gimp yourself so hard that you might as well count merely REACHING the final boss as beating the game. Everything that you love about this game falls apart into ashes once it throws one of its two bosses at you. It genuinely is infuriating because this game is almost flawless otherwise, but all it takes for this game to be something I cannot recommend are simply two bosses.

Lunacid is the perfect embodiment of the phrase "it flies too close to the sun." It's so perfect otherwise, but its low points are so low it craters the entire experience and makes you feel bad. If the journey is more meaningful than the destination, I can see you liking this game. If you're like the rest of us, and the destination is just as important to an experience, this game soils itself at the mid-point and then again at the very tail end.

>Vampire
>Spooky crypts
>scary ass horse monsters that don't take physical or cold damage
>scraping by with my fire spell
>♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I have lightning bolt now
>HELL YEAH A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ HOLY SWORD
>Run circles in the spooky Dungeon
>door to a new spooky dungeon
>pitch black in here, spam the light spell I got 4 levels back
>"DEATH APPROACHES"
>Oh ♥♥♥♥ wtf run away
>Why can't I open my pause menu? I need to equip my crystal to go back home
>OH ♥♥♥♥ HE'S CURSED ME WITH BLEEDING CHAINS
>Drink theose super cheap health potions I got a while back
>poisoned, take damage directly after rinking as well
>check over shoulder
>Death is 2m away
>OH♥♥♥♥OH♥♥♥♥OH♥♥♥♥
>Can't move
>killed
>first time I died, what happens now?
>Auto loaded save from 2hrs ago
>No ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way bro.
>Can't wait to play it again today